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Elevator designed for the vertical transportation of vehicles
A car elevator
A car elevator or vehicle elevator is an elevator designed for the vertical transportation of vehicles inside buildings, so increasing the number of vehicles that can be parked in parking lots and parking garages. Where real estate is costly, these car parking systems can reduce overall costs by using less land to park the same number of cars.[1]
Vehicle lifts, which lift a car at its center of gravity, are used in garages and repair shops and are designed to allow access to a car's undercarriage for repair.[2]
^Graham, David A. (March 27, 2012). "A Guide for the 99%: What Is a Car Elevator and Why Does Mitt Need One?". The Atlantic.
^Duffy, James E.; Scharff, Robert (2003). Auto Body Repair Technology. Thomson/Delmar Learning. p. 250. ISBN 9780766862722.
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announced plans for a modern paternoster-style elevator with computer-controlled cars and standard elevator doors to alleviate safety concerns. A prototype...
elevator accidents, a 15-year-old boy was decapitated by an elevator at a furniture warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland. On 20 May 1905, three elevator accidents...
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like coat hangers to force the elevatorcar's doors open between floors and unlatch the outer doors from the inside. Elevator surfers usually cannot use the...
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and incline wheelchair lifts, residential elevators, dumbwaiters and car lifts. In 1948, McKinley Elevator Corporation was started by Bill McKinley as...
floor was most often going up. This creates the false impression that elevatorcars are more likely to be going in one direction than the other depending...
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Kennicott appears bloated because there is an external carelevator built into the superstructure. The elevator is used in ports without roll-on ramps allowing...
an internal carelevator to transport cars to upper levels where attendants parked the cars. In the 1920s, a Ferris wheel-like APS (for cars rather than...
were opened in 2017. The development features three carelevators that lift residents and their cars into so called "Sky Garages". Proposals for additional...
funicular inaugurated the use of the cable car technology that continues in use today. The upper station of the elevator is located at 512 Fenelon Place, whilst...
inclined elevators, organised by place within country and region. An inclined elevator is distinguished from the similar funicular railway in that its cars operate...
the similar incline elevator in that it has two vehicles that counterbalance one another rather than independently operated cars. Cape of Good Hope, Flying...
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spaces. Car parking is essential to car-based travel. Cars are typically stationary around 95 per cent of the time. The availability and price of car parking...
speed. This feature distinguishes funiculars from inclined elevators, which have a single car that is hauled uphill. The term funicular derives from the...
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